Looking over the turnout of the Cubs at spring training on Catalina Island, Cal., is Charley McCarthy, dummy of radio and movie fame in center of group with Edgar Bergen, the ventriloquist (in sweater).

Looking over the turnout of the Cubs at spring training on Catalina Island, Cal., is Charley McCarthy, dummy of radio and movie fame in center of group with Edgar Bergen, the ventriloquist (in sweater). (1939 Acme file photo)

It's a little different when members of Manager Jim Wilson's squad get ready to work out in March 1944. The weatherman has kept them from using the outdoor diamond and Manager Jim Dykes has fortified his White Sox in the hotel's convention hall, leaving the Cubs nothing better than the stables,...

It's a little different when members of Manager Jim Wilson's squad get ready to work out in March 1944. The weatherman has kept them from using the outdoor diamond and Manager Jim Dykes has fortified his White Sox in the hotel's convention hall, leaving the Cubs nothing better than the stables,... (Chicago Tribune)

A spring training game in March of 1967 between the Cubs and Cleveland Indians brought out, from left, Bears coach and owner George Halas, Cubs play-by-play man Jack Brickhouse, then California governor Ronald Reagan and Cubs manager Leo Durocher.

A spring training game in March of 1967 between the Cubs and Cleveland Indians brought out, from left, Bears coach and owner George Halas, Cubs play-by-play man Jack Brickhouse, then California governor Ronald Reagan and Cubs manager Leo Durocher. (UPI archive photo)